____ (2022-05-18). SEP candidates for Australian election discuss socialist program on podcast. wsws.org The discussion, which lasted over an hour, covered many topics, including the threat of war, the disastrous consequences the official "let it rip" pandemic policies and the burning need to build a socialist movement of the working class.

____ (2022-05-18). Johnson government pushes UK to the brink of trade war with Europe over Northern Ireland Protocol. wsws.org The task at hand is not to "defend the protocol", but to mobilise the working class for a socialist Ireland, a socialist Britain and the United Socialist States of Europe.

____ (2022-05-18). Teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts, end one-day strike after union agrees to below-inflation, six-year contract. wsws.org The BEU has kept workers on the job for nearly three years without a contract. Like many teachers, including those in the Boston Public Schools system who have been working without a contract for eight months, Brookline educators are demanding "reasonable compensation as well as working conditions that meet the realities of a modern, comprehensive education."

____ (2022-05-18). Protests against hike in food and fuel prices across Middle East and North Africa. wsws.org World Bank Chief economist Carmen Reinhart commented, "I don't want to be melodramatic, but it's not a far stretch that food insecurity and riots were part of the story behind the Arab Spring."

____ (2022-05-18). Oppose military deployment in Sri Lanka's free trade zones. wsws.org The Apparel Workers' Action Committee warns that this repressive move could be extended to other centres of the working class in both the private and public sectors.

____ (2022-05-18). Soaring food prices threaten workers with food insecurity and starvation. wsws.org Around the world, in developing and so-called advanced countries alike, millions are facing food insecurity and hunger amid soaring prices and shortages of food.